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Saturday, August 09, 2014

Scenes from a Few Days Away

We are just back home after a few days away in Wales. Well, I say just back, in fact we've been home for a couple of days now but I've been busy catching up on the usual round of washing and ironing not to mention working in the garden which seems to have run rampant whilst we have been away. Thank you for all your kind comments left on my last post whilst I was away and I think I've caught up on all your posts now although I haven't commented on them all yet so forgive me if I seem to have missed visiting you for a while.

Although we have had quite a restful holiday we did manage to visit a few well loved and familiar places, many of which I've blogged about on here over the years. This visit we sat on the beach at Llanbedrog where I buried my feet in the dry sand, I loved the Dragon seat at Craflwyn. We also somehow managed to get to the top of one of the mountains between Beddgelert and Sygun. The views were stunning - so was the fact that I got up there and got down again!

Below are some more photos of the places we have visited.

The beaches at Borth-y-gest and Criccieth where we walked and walked especially at Criccieth.

The beach huts at Llanbedrog, featured here many times before. A blue tit at the RSPB reserve at Lake Vyrnwy, Llyn Dinas near the Sygun Copper Mine and that place with a long name on Anglesey.

The magical gardens of Plas Newydd (above) and Plas Brodanw (below)

It's not everyday you find a sculpture of a fairy cake in a fish pond!

20 comments:

Glad to hear that you have had a lovely break Rosie. My garden is in a sorry state but as we are due a storm tomorrow I will sort itout out after! I would love to have that dragon seat in my garden - it is wonderful! x

The not nice part of a holiday is the sorting out of things when you get home! Some lovely photos there, it looks like you've had a fabulous time. I especially love the photo or your feet buried in the sand, can't beat that feeling! Suzy x

It's wonderful to re-visit places that you have come to love. As I get older I find I'm doing much of the same, it seems like a home from home. The ironing pile here is getting quite high.. I sympathise!

Sounds like a lovely break. I loved your seaside photos, especially as I doubt I will get to see the sea this year. Those gardens you visited look great too. I love Criccieth, just because it's where Dave and I collected the stones to make our pebble people ( http://roachling.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/photo-scavenger-hunt-october.html ) on our first holiday together. We went down the Sygun Copper Mine too :) I love Wales, I'd really like to go back to North Wales - so many places on my list though, so little time!

Lovely photos of your holiday - I don't know Wales very well at all - I really must remedy that one day. That's the trouble with going away, you always have to come back to all the laundry and a garden that has gone mad. Glad you enjoyed it - looks like you had plenty of exercise.

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I'm an East Midlander, retired now from working in museums and the heritage/tourism industry. I was born in the city of Leicester, spent most of my childhood, teens and early twenties in Derbyshire; lived and worked in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Now out of the East Midlands in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire and dreaming that one day we might move back into Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire, but then I'd also like to live in a cottage by the sea....... meanwhile life goes on!